![]() ![]() The story focuses on the family inside the Ipatiev House, capturing the oppressive atmosphere and the dynamics of a group – the Romanovs, their servants and guards – thrown together by extraordinary events. This is the story of those murders, which ended 300 years of Romanov rule and set their stamp on an era of state-orchestrated terror and brutal repression.Įkaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs counts down to the last, tense hours of the family’s lives, stripping away the over-romanticised versions of previous accounts. Thirteen days later, at Yurovsky’s command, and on direct orders from Moscow, the family was gunned down in a blaze of bullets in a basement room. His name was Yakov Yurovsky, and his prisoners were the Imperial family: the former Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra and their children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexey. On July 4, 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. ![]()
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